books.google.co.uk - Julian Budden, one of the world's foremost scholars of Italian opera and author of a monumental three-volume study of Verdi's works, now offers music lovers a major new biography of one of the giants of Italian opera, Giacomo Puccini. Blending astute musical analysis with a colorful account of Puccini's...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Puccini.html?id=0GRa7bzeT0gC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePuccini